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A Cuyahoga County prosecutor was fired this week after he admitted
posing as a woman in a Facebook chat with an accused killer’s alibi
witnesses in an attempt to persuade them to change their testimony.

Former
Assistant County Prosecutor Aaron Brockler insisted in an interview at
his Lakewood home Thursday that he had done nothing wrong and shouldn’t
have been fired.

"Law enforcement, including prosecutors, have
long engaged in the practice of using a ruse to obtain the truth," said
Brockler, 35, a county prosecutor since 2006. "I think the public is
better off for what I did."

County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty said he fired Brockler for good cause.

"This
office does not condone and will not tolerate such unethical behavior,"
McGinty said. "He disgraced this office and everyone who works here."

McGinty
continued: "By creating false evidence, lying to witnesses as well as
another prosecutor, Aaron Brockler has damaged the prosecution’s chances
in a murder case where a totally innocent man was killed at his work."

Brockler
was the lead prosecutor in the aggravated murder case of Damon Dunn,
29, of Cleveland, who was scheduled to stand trial for the shooting
death of Kenneth "Blue" Adams on May 18, 2012, at an East Side car wash.

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The StandDown Texas Project

The StandDown Texas Project was organized in 2000 to advocate a moratorium on executions and a state-sponsored review of Texas' application of the death penalty.
To stand down is to go off duty temporarily, especially to review safety procedures.

Steve Hall

Project Director Steve Hall was chief of staff to the Attorney General of Texas from 1983-1991; he was an administrator of the Texas Resource Center from 1993-1995. He has worked for the U.S. Congress and several Texas legislators. Hall is a former journalist.